Gordaen’s Blog

Microsoft provides us with another example of why attention to detail is valuable.

AJAX is essentially a method of getting data to a browser without refreshing a page. Web pages normally have to be entirely downloaded to see new data from the server, but with AJAX you can send the request “behind the scenes” and receive the data asynchronously. This is what makes Gmail and similar [...]

A few months back nearly every advertisement on MySpace became an advertisement for True, an online dating service. While the ads were all ridiculous (girls in bikinis, half unbuttoned shirts, etc.), they were just ads. I’ve learned to ignore nearly all ads and I block flash ads, so the change didn’t really matter [...]

Yesterday, I posted a quick few paragraphs explaining that I’ve decided to do away with Feedburner. Rick Klau commented expressing interest in what caused me to be dissatisfied, so I’m following up on that with a basic analysis of what I liked and didn’t like about Feedburner.
What is it?
For those who don’t know, Feedburner [...]

For a few years now, I’ve done my taxes with Turbo Tax. If you go to the IRS site, you can select Free File and pick from one of the free sites, including Turbo Tax (assuming you’re not “well off”). Turbo Tax has always been good in the past, but this year they [...]